1946 to 21st Century

Victors and Postwar Colonialism

Victors against the Defeated - retributions, expropriations, occupations

The United Nations - founding, purpose

The U.S. and British in Asia, to 1960 - withdrawal from colonialism

Independence for Indonesia - the Dutch fight but lose a colony

French Colonialism - Madagascar, North and Subsaharan Africa, Indochina and Algeria

Black Africans into the Sixties - socialism and free enterprise

The Cold War into the Sixties

The Cold War Begins - Truman, Stalin, Mao

Ronald Reagan in Hollywood - Reagan versus communists

The Korean War - occupation, China intervenes, negotiations

The Cold War, 1953-60 - Eastern Europe, nuclear terror, Cold War mindsets

Castro, Khrushchev and Kennedy - Batista, the U.S., missile crisis, Oswald

Che Guevara, 1960-67 - revolutionary, Bolivia and death

Anti-Communism and Military Regimes in Greece and Indonesia

Democracy and Dictatorship in Greece - to 1974

Indonesia and the Great Slaughter - Sukarno loses power, 1965 to 1967

More Latin America

Latin America into the 1960s - general

Guatemala into the 1950s - from Ubico, to the overthrow of Arbenz and the Armas regime

The Dominican Republic, Trujillo Juan Bosch - the struggle for democracy

Brazil into the 1960s - from Getulio Vargas to the overthrow of João Goulart

Juan Peron and Argentina - coup, Eva, decline and fall (edited Feb/2008)

Argentina, 1966-88 - military dictatorship, murder and disappearance (edited Feb/2008)

Chile to the Overthrow of Allende - 1932 to 1973

The Rule of Augusto Pinochet - Chile, 1973 to 1989

Nicaragua to 1990 - Somoza dictatorship, the Sandinistas and the United States

Civil War in El Salvador - El Salvador from the early 1930s to 1992

Guatemala to 2006 - Civil war and democracy, from Reagan to Clinton

China, Japan, India and Pakistan

India and Pakistan, 1950 to 1966 - democratic India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Japan's Economic Recovery - from hunger to economic boom

Mao's China - leaps, Sino-Soviet dispute, Red guards and capitalist roaders

China under New Leadership - Deng Xiaoping, Tiananmen troubles, ten years later

India and Pakistan, 1990 to 2002 - Kashmir, Hindus and Muslims, Pakistan's Sharif and Musharraf

Racial Equality, Vietnam, and Extremists

The United States and Equal Rights, 1947-65 - the human rights movement

The United States and Vietnam - French and U.S. involvements, postwar opinions

Failed Radicals in Europe and Japan - unrest in France, Germany, Italy, Japan's Mishima

The Sixties and Seventies from Berkeley to Woodstock - Berkeley, the Panthers, dissipation

Jonestown - Jim Jones takes his people to mass suicide

Africa into the 1990s

Idi Amin Dada Oumee - Uganda to 1979

The Continent of Africa - from the 1980s, population, politics and economies in general

Socialist Experiment in Tanzania - to 1985

South Africa and the End of Apartheid - from the 1960s to 1994

Algeria and Civil War - the early 1990s

Rwanda and Ethnic Quotas - from the 1960s to 1994

Children at War in Liberia and Sierra Leone - Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor, to 2003

New Directions in the West and East Europe

Religion from Vatican II to Hare Krishna - new values, conservatism, diffusions and gurus

Political Conservatives in the West - Hayek, Kirk, Strauss, Buckley, Ayn Rand, Reagan, Thatcher, Spain, Sweden

The Soviet Union Disintegrates - Brezhnev, Gorbachev and reforms, freedoms in 1989 (edited Feb/2008)

Yugoslavia Disintegrates - 1919 to the war in Kosovo

The Middle East

Arabs and Jews to 1950 - from World War II to the creation of Israel

Jews Flee Arabic Homelands - attacks on Jews and the disappearance of ancient communities

Muslims and Israelis to the 1967 War - Muslim Brotherhood, anti-Western intellectuals, Nasser, crises

Israel, Occupation and Violence, 1967-76 - Occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, Yon Kipper War, terror

Saudi Arabia, to the 1970s and Beyond - modernization, 1974 oil embargo, foreign relations

The Iranian Revolution - the Shah against dissent, victory for Islamic reactionaries

The Siege of Mecca and the Birth of al Qaeda - summary of a book by Yaroslav Trofimov

Muslims and Israelis, 1976-88 - Camp David, the U.S. in Lebanon, war in Afghanistan, intifada

Israelis and Palestinians, 1991 to 2000 - Rabin, Suicide bombers, Arafat, Netanyaho, Barak and Sharon

Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to 2000 - from Afghanistan to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole

Saddam Hussein and War in 1991 - from rise to power to Gulf War One

The Road to Gulf War Two, 1991-2000 - Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the Clinton administration.

The Road to Gulf War Two, 2001 to March 2003 - Road to war during the Bush administration.

Victors and Postwar Colonialism

Victors against the Defeated - retributions, expropriations, occupations

The United Nations - founding, purpose

The U.S. and British in Asia, to 1960 - withdrawal from colonialism

Independence for Indonesia - the Dutch fight but lose a colony

French Colonialism - Madagascar, North and Subsaharan Africa, Indochina and Algeria

Black Africans into the Sixties - socialism and free enterprise

The Cold War into the Sixties

The Cold War Begins - Truman, Stalin, Mao

Ronald Reagan in Hollywood - Reagan versus communists

The Korean War - occupation, China intervenes, negotiations

The Cold War, 1953-60 - Eastern Europe, nuclear terror, Cold War mindsets

Castro, Khrushchev and Kennedy - Batista, the U.S., missile crisis, Oswald

Che Guevara, 1960-67 - revolutionary, Bolivia and death

Anti-Communism and Military Regimes in Greece and Indonesia

Democracy and Dictatorship in Greece - to 1974

Indonesia and the Great Slaughter - Sukarno loses power, 1965 to 1967

More Latin America

Latin America into the 1960s - general

Guatemala into the 1950s - from Ubico, to the overthrow of Arbenz and the Armas regime

The Dominican Republic, Trujillo Juan Bosch - the struggle for democracy

Brazil into the 1960s - from Getulio Vargas to the overthrow of João Goulart

Juan Peron and Argentina - coup, Eva, decline and fall (edited Feb/2008)

Argentina, 1966-88 - military dictatorship, murder and disappearance (edited Feb/2008)

Chile to the Overthrow of Allende - 1932 to 1973

The Rule of Augusto Pinochet - Chile, 1973 to 1989

Nicaragua to 1990 - Somoza dictatorship, the Sandinistas and the United States

Civil War in El Salvador - El Salvador from the early 1930s to 1992

Guatemala to 2006 - Civil war and democracy, from Reagan to Clinton

China, Japan, India and Pakistan

India and Pakistan, 1950 to 1966 - democratic India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Japan's Economic Recovery - from hunger to economic boom

Mao's China - leaps, Sino-Soviet dispute, Red guards and capitalist roaders

China under New Leadership - Deng Xiaoping, Tiananmen troubles, ten years later

India and Pakistan, 1990 to 2002 - Kashmir, Hindus and Muslims, Pakistan's Sharif and Musharraf

Racial Equality, Vietnam, and Extremists

The United States and Equal Rights, 1947-65 - the human rights movement

The United States and Vietnam - French and U.S. involvements, postwar opinions

Failed Radicals in Europe and Japan - unrest in France, Germany, Italy, Japan's Mishima

The Sixties and Seventies from Berkeley to Woodstock - Berkeley, the Panthers, dissipation

Jonestown - Jim Jones takes his people to mass suicide

Africa into the 1990s

Idi Amin Dada Oumee - Uganda to 1979

The Continent of Africa - from the 1980s, population, politics and economies in general

Socialist Experiment in Tanzania - to 1985

South Africa and the End of Apartheid - from the 1960s to 1994

Algeria and Civil War - the early 1990s

Rwanda and Ethnic Quotas - from the 1960s to 1994

Children at War in Liberia and Sierra Leone - Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor, to 2003

New Directions in the West and East Europe

Religion from Vatican II to Hare Krishna - new values, conservatism, diffusions and gurus

Political Conservatives in the West - Hayek, Kirk, Strauss, Buckley, Ayn Rand, Reagan, Thatcher, Spain, Sweden

The Soviet Union Disintegrates - Brezhnev, Gorbachev and reforms, freedoms in 1989 (edited Feb/2008)

Yugoslavia Disintegrates - 1919 to the war in Kosovo

The Middle East

Arabs and Jews to 1950 - from World War II to the creation of Israel

Jews Flee Arabic Homelands - attacks on Jews and the disappearance of ancient communities

Muslims and Israelis to the 1967 War - Muslim Brotherhood, anti-Western intellectuals, Nasser, crises

Israel, Occupation and Violence, 1967-76 - Occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, Yon Kipper War, terror

Saudi Arabia, to the 1970s and Beyond - modernization, 1974 oil embargo, foreign relations

The Iranian Revolution - the Shah against dissent, victory for Islamic reactionaries

The Siege of Mecca and the Birth of al Qaeda - summary of a book by Yaroslav Trofimov

Muslims and Israelis, 1976-88 - Camp David, the U.S. in Lebanon, war in Afghanistan, intifada

Israelis and Palestinians, 1991 to 2000 - Rabin, Suicide bombers, Arafat, Netanyaho, Barak and Sharon

Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to 2000 - from Afghanistan to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole

Saddam Hussein and War in 1991 - from rise to power to Gulf War One

The Road to Gulf War Two, 1991-2000 - Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the Clinton administration.

The Road to Gulf War Two, 2001 to March 2003 - Road to war during the Bush administration.

Occupation versus Liberation - Baghdad from April to September 2003

Trends into the 21st Century

Country profiles - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Health care measured by infant mortality - as of July 1, 2007

Oil Consumption and Production - by nation and per capita

Economic success and low corruption - the top countries

Technology, food and well-being - "economically challenged" countries

Fewest Murders per capita - top ten

Religions with the most followers - the top eleven

Freedom of the press - global problem

An average day in the USA - some happenings in a wealthy country